The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-12-01

piled with an abundance or the Dest pro-
visions and all sorts OF rural dainties.
There is nothing of war about the pro-
ceeding except its stimulus and excite-
ment. On the side Of the poor Austrians
il is Just the reverse. In his letter Of the
same date, describing the same places and
march over the same road, the writer can
scarcely find words to set forth the suffer-
ing, impatience, and disgust existing
around him. What was pleasant to the
former was intolerable to the latter. What
made all this difference? asks the journalist.
'One condition only: The French are
victorious; the Austrians have been de-
feated. The contrast may convey dis
tirctiye idea of the extent to which moral
Impressions affect the efficiency of the
soldier.
: So, my dear brother, the road you are
travelling is the same you have been travel.
ing long while, but the difference III youI
physical conditions makes itlook different,
and therefore the two reports you have
given of yourself are as widely different as
the reports in the London Times from the
two correspondents. Edward Payson,
sometimes 80 far up on the mount that il
seemed as if the centripetal force Of earth
could no longer hold him; sometimes,
through a physical disorder, was so faI
down that il seemed as if the neither world
would clutch him. Glorious William Cow
Ner was as good ms good could be, and will
be loved in the Christian Church as long
as it sings his hymn beginning; "There is
Fountain Filled with Blood" and hia
hymn beginning "Oh, for Closer Walk
with God!" and his hymn beginning:
"What Various Hindrances We Meet" and
his hymn BEGINNING "God Moves in a
Mysterious Way" Yet so was he over
come of melancholy, or black bile, that il
was only through he mistake Of the cab
driver, who took him TO wrong place, in"
stead of the river bank, that he did moi
commit suicide.
Spiritual condition SO NIGHTLY affected
by the physical state, what great oppor-
tunity this gives to the Christian physician,
for he can feel mt the same time both the
pulse of the body and the pulse of the
soul, and he can administer to both at
once, and if medicine is needed he can
give that an earthly and divine pre-
scription at the same time and call on not
only the apothecary of earth, but the
. pharmacy of Heaven. All, that is the kind
of doctor want at my bedside when get
sick, one that cannot only pour out the
right number of drops, but who can also
pray. That is the kind of doctor | have
uhU Ill NY uOuot Nlbu blOhutbo VI hCdtb
came. / do not want any of your profit
gate or atheisiic doctors around my loved
ones when the balances of life are trem'
bling. A doctor who has gone through the
medical college and in disseclng room has
traversed the wonders of the human
mechanism, and found no God in any OF
the labyrinths, is fool, and cannot doctor
me or mine. But, oh, the Christian doc-
torsl What a comfort they have been in
many of our households. And they ought
to have warm place in our prayers,a as well
as praise on our tongues. Dear old DR..
Skillman! My fathers doctor, my moth
ers doctor, in the village home. He car
ried all the condolences of all the families
for ten miles around. Wo all felt better
ns soon as we saw him enter the house.
His face pronounced u beatitude before
he said word. He welcomed all of us
children into life, and he closed the old
peoples eyes when they entered the last
slumber. think know what Christ said
TO him when the old doctor got through his
work. think he was greeted with the
words: "Come in, doctor. ] was sick and
We visited mel" l bless God that the num-
ber of Christian physicians is multiplying,
and some of the students of the medical
colleges are here to-day, and / hail you,
and bless you, and l ordain you to the
tender, beautiful, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS work
of a Christian physician, ard when you
take your diploma from the Long Island
Medical College, to look after the perish
able body, be sure also to get diploma
from the skies TO look after the imperish-
able soul. Let all Christian physicians
unite with ministers of the gospel in per-
suading good people that it is not because
God is against them that they sometimes
feel depressed, but because of their dis
eased body. suppose David, the psalm
ist, was no more pious when he called on
everything human and angelic, animate
and inanimate, and from snowflake to hur-
ricane, to praise God, than when he said:
"Out Of the depths of hell have l cried
unto thee, O, Lord" or that jeremiah was
any better when he wrote his prophecy
than when he wrote his "Lamentations;" or
that Job was any better when he said: "I
know that my Redeemer liveth," than
when covered all over with the pustules Of
elephantiasis he sat in the ashes scratch
ing the scabs off with a broken piece of
pottery; or that Alexander Cruden, the
concordist, was any better man when he
compiled the book that has helped 10000
students of the Bible, than when under
the power of physical disorder he was
handcuffed and straight waistcoated in
Bethnal Green Insane Asylum.
"Oh," says some Christian man, "no one
ought to allow physical disorder to depress
his soul. He ought to live so near to God
as to be always in the sunshine" Yes,
that is good advice; but | warrant that you,
the man who gives the advice, have
sound liver. Thank God every day for
healthful hepatic condition, for. just as
certainly as you lose it, you will some
times, like David, and like Jeremiah, and
like Cowper, and like Alexander Cruden,
and like 10000 other invalids, be playing
dead march on the same organ with which
now you play toccata. My object at this
point is not only TO emolliate the criticisms
of the well against those in poor health,
but to show Christian people who are
atrabilarious what is the matter with them.
Do not charge against the heart the crimes
of another portion of your organism. Do
not conclude that because the path OF
Heaven is not arbOred with as fine foliage,
or the banks beautifully showed under with
exquisite chrysanthemums as once, that
therefore you are ON the wrong road. The
road will bring you ont at the same gate
whether you walk with the stride of an
athlete or come IN On crutches. Thou
sands of Christians, morbid about their ex-
periences, and morbid about their busi-
ness, and morbid about the present, and
morbid about the future, need the sermon
am now preaching.
Another practical use Of this subject is
for the young. The theory is abroad thai
they must first SOW their wild oats, and
afterward Michigan wheat. Let me break
the delusion. Wild oats are generally
soUn in the liver and they can never be
pulled up. They SO preoccupy that organ
that there is TO room for the implsntatior
Of righteous crop. You see aged men
about us at 80 erect, agile, splendid, grand
old men. How much wild oats did they
SOW between 10 years and 30P None, alb.
aolntaIv mona God doea not very often